Theresa May has said she is backing visions for social reform and transformation in the Middle East, as she announced a £90m cash injection for Jordan to help its economic stability in a speech in Amman.

You will remember when the government cut £1,500 a year from disabled people through slashing the employment and support allowance. This was justified through an effective work and health programme. Today’s statement is clear evidence that they have broken this promise.

The Welsh first minister, Carwyn Jones, has said there should be “agreement not imposition” between the UK and Welsh governments on the sharing of powers after Brexit. Speaking after a meeting with Damian Green, the first secretary of state, Jones, who previously described the EU withdrawal bill as a “crude power grab”, said the two sides had not reached agreement but progress had been made. He said:

There were good discussions about future frameworks, how powers would work across the UK. We are not in a position to support the withdrawal bill yet because of the elements of it that affect devolution, but there was acknowledgement that there was an opportunity for the UK government to consider our amendments as the bill goes through parliament.

There should be agreement not imposition. We understand what the UK government is trying to do and we share the same destination, but either they do it through imposing rules on the rest of us or they do it by us all agreeing.

Robert Chote, head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, has denied that the OBR is biased against Brexit. Giving evidence to the Commons Treasury committee, and responding to a question from a Tory MP who said people thought it predicted Brexit would slow growth because it was biased against Brexit, Chote said accusations of bias were “without any foundation whatsoever”. The FT (paywall) has more.

On Radio 4’s PM programme Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to the US, and Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s communications director, are speaking about Theresa May’s response to President Trump. They both said they thought she got it about right, and that it would have been counter-productive for May to have attacked Trump more aggressively.

Meyer said he could not recall a British prime minister rebuking an American president in the way May did in public in his lifetime.

But Meyer and Campbell both said they thought it was a mistake for May to offer Trump a state visit as quickly as she did.

Damian Green, the first secretary of state, has published a written ministerial statement correcting something he said at PMQs yesterday when he deputised for Theresa May. He told MPs the government spends £90bn a year on disability benefits. But the figure is £50bn, Green says in his statement.

Jeremy Corbyn has been revealed as the latest cover star of men’s magazine GQ. British GQ tweeted a photo of its January/February issue cover, which features the Labour leader in a dark Marks & Spencer jacket and red tie, the Press Association reports. The issue has been billed a “2018 Election Special” and carries the headline “Jeremy Corbyn’s hostile takeover”. His appearance marks a change in direction for the magazine, which has featured the likes of Liam Gallagher, Alec Baldwin, Cara Delevingne and the Duke of Cambridge on the cover this year.

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Corbyn on the front page of GQ magazine. Imagine saying that when he was 20+ points behind in the polls 7 months ago.... pic.twitter.com/t1sc36VfhS

According to Sky’s Darren McCaffrey, Foreign Office officials told the Irish government to ignore what Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, said about Brexit when he visited Dublin recently. Here is McCaffrey’s story. And here’s an excerpt.

Sky News has learnt that Foreign Office officials told Ireland’s government “not to listen to whatever he had to say” ahead of Johnson’s visit to Dublin a few weeks ago.

Extraordinarily, officials in Whitehall were very open with their counterparts in the Irish capital to “ignore the public utterances” of Britain’s chief diplomat.

Penny Mordaunt, Britain’s new international development secretary, is to place a commitment to tackling discrimination against disabled people at the heart of the government’s development strategy, my colleague Karen McVeigh reports.

Ireland’s newly installed deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney, has said the EU will not “abandon” Dublin and force it to veto progress of Brexit on its own if a satisfactory deal on the Irish border is not on the table by Monday’s deadline.

He told MPs in the Dail there was “a very strong understanding across the 27 EU states in relation to what is required” in order to get talks over the line into the second phase of negotiations.

He said the decision on whether to move to the next stage or not was of “real historic significance” to Ireland. He said:

This is about permanent change in the relationship between Ireland and Britain and within this island.

Coveney who was promoted to the post of tanaiste on Thursday was responded to calls by the Sinn Fein deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald to use Ireland’s veto if necessary.

He said Ireland had been consistent in its demands that there was no regulatory divergence over the Irish border as a result of the UK pulling out of the EU.

“What perhaps has changed is the expectation of others that Ireland might change its position,” he said in reference to the UK.

I wanted you to #AskWoody. Thank you for your questions and feedback. I have relayed your concerns to Washington. The U.S. & UK have a long history of speaking frankly with each other, as all close friends do. Our relationship is strong, vital and enduring.

Two Brexit books reviewed

Last year a lot of books were published about the EU referendum. I summarised some of the best ones here. But the Brexit books are still coming, and over the last few weeks two particularly good one have landed on my desk. Here they are - both strongly recommended.

The Lure of Greatness by Anthony Barnett: Barnett, director of Charter 88 and a founder of openDemocracy, has spent his life campaigning for democratic change from the left only to find that, when the moment of seismic, anti-elitist, constitutional upheaval did arrive, it was in the form of Brexit, and from the right. This is his attempt to make sense of it. It is not a campaign book; it’s about the political forces that explain what happened, and it is remarkable in its reach. Barnett is particularly interested in Brexit as a consequence of England’s lack of self-government (“England-without-London” voted 55% leave, he points out), but he ranges very widely, covering neoliberalism, Iraq, Blair’s constitutional reforms and even Princess Diana (an early exponent of “celebrity populism”, h